Hello and welcome to Something Like Love … in 2006 I spent six weeks in a cabin in the northern Georgia woods at the Hambidge Retreat Centre, and that part of the US was another world to me. I saw a black rat snake stretch right across the width of a road. I drank sweet tea and ate chitlin and grits. I saw nazi memorabilia at flea markets. And I met Billy Redden, the man who played the part of the banjo playing boy in the movie "Deliverance". Sidenote: I’ve since learned that he wasn’t playing the banjo at all … there was an adult playing it for him in that scene. 

In this episode I’ll share the fictional story I wrote while I was in Rabun Gap, Georgia. I called it "Rabun County," and it was published in my short story collection Listen, Honey, published in 2012 by DC Books. Easy to find online, if you fancy getting yourself a copy.

To set the mood, I kick things off with a little blue grass.

Thanks for tuning in! I wish you a Georgia peach kind of Day.